Announcements expected as energy secretary, EXIM chair and Nebraska leaders tour critical minerals mine. Poised to become a ...

Alabama lease framework could provide up to 100 years of site control. Advancing its plans to establish an integrated ...

Adjustable rare-earth yttrium-indium MOF opens door to customizing magnetic, optical, and gas-capturing properties Scientists ...

Silicon carbide tubes move toward full-length reactor testing. Seeking to improve the safety and performance of the nation's ...

PGM storyline shifts from tailpipes to hydrogen and high-tech From jewelry and fountain pens to catalytic converters and hydrogen fuel cells, platinum group metals are an assemblage of six scarce and ...

Despite its more than 300 applications – from household cleaners to advanced weapon systems – boron has long avoided the "critical" designation thanks to a seemingly secure domestic supply from a ...

New projects span feedstock, refining, wafers, and recycling. Used in fiber-optic networks, infrared imaging, space-based solar cells, semiconductors, and radiation detectors, germanium depends on a ...

Experts say U.S. is at a critical moment for battery material Graphite has quietly become one of the largest vulnerabilities in Western supply chains supporting electric vehicles, energy storage, ...

Funded projects move new recovery routes toward commercial production. Embedded in the compound semiconductors that transmit wireless signals, regulate electricity, illuminate displays, power ...

Allied mines, processors, and projects widen routes to U.S. buyers. Built into the tools that cut metal, the bits that drill rock, the counterweights to balance aircraft, and the alloys that survive ...

The deepening alliance between the United States and Japan is among the clearest signs that isolated national strategies are giving way to an allied critical minerals ecosystem. The shift was evident ...

Selects nine projects for $162M to accelerate technologies from lab to prototype and pilot to near-commercial scale As part of its nearly $1 billion initiative to reestablish America's ability to ...